delirium

See also: Delirium and delírium

English

Etymology

From the (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēlīrium (“derangement”, “madness”), from dēlīrō (“I am deranged”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭlĭʹrĭəm, IPA^(key): /dɪˈlɪɹɪəm/

Noun

delirium (countable and uncountable, plural deliriums or deliria)

1. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety, and sometimes hallucinations. Causes can include dehydration, drug intoxication, and severe infection.
   • Washington Irving

     The popular delirium [of the French Revolution] at first caught his enthusiastic mind.

   • Motley

     the delirium of the preceding session (of Parliament)

   • Mary Shelley, The Last Man

     Better to decay in absolute delirium, than to be the victim of the methodical unreason of ill-bestowed love.

Related terms

Related terms

• deliracy
• delirament
• delirancy
• delirant
• delirate

• delirating
• deliration
• delire
• deliring
• delirement

• deliriant
• deliriate
• delirifacient
• delirious
• deliriously

• deliriousness
• delirium tremens
• delirous
• delirousness
• deliry

Translations

mental state of confusion

• Armenian: զառանցանք (hy) (zaṙancʻankʻ), ցնորք (hy) (cʻnorkʻ)
• Asturian: deliriu
• Azerbaijani: sayıqlama
• Basque: eldarnio, zoraldi, zorabio
• Belarusian: брэд m (bred)
• Bulgarian: бълнуване n (bǎlnuvane), дели́риум (bg) m (delírium)
• Catalan: deliri (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 譫妄／谵妄 (zh) (zhānwàng), 谵妄 (zh) (zhānwàng), 神志昏迷 (zh) (shénzhì hūnmí)

• Czech: delirium (cs) n
• Dutch: delier n, delirium (nl) n
• Finnish: houretila
• French: délire (fr) m
• Galician: delirio m
• German: Delirium (de) n, Fieberphantasie n, Taumel m
• Greek: παραλήρημα (el) n (paralírima)
• Gujarati: ચિત્તભ્રમણા (cittabhramṇā)
• Hebrew: טירוף (he)
• Hungarian: delírium (hu)
• Italian: delirio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: せん妄 (せんもう, senmō), 譫妄 (せんもう, senmō)
• Korean: 섬망 (ko) (seommang)
• Macedonian: делириум m (delirium)
• Maori: kutukutuahi, ngutungutuahi, kuawa, mate kuawa
• Polish: majaczenie (pl) n, delirium (pl) n, (colloquial) delirka f
• Portuguese: delírio (pt) m
• Romanian: delir (ro) n
• Romansch: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: бред (ru) m (bred), дели́рий (ru) m (delírij), горя́чка (ru) f (gorjáčka)
• Scottish Gaelic: breisleach m, boile f, mearan m, bruaillean m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: делиријум m

  Roman: delirijum (sh) m

• Slovak: delírium
• Slovene: delirij m
• Spanish: delirio (es) m
• Turkish: sayıklama (tr), deliriyum
• Ukrainian: бред m (bred)
• Vietnamese: mê sảng (vi)

See also

• delirium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

• “delirium” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]

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Dutch

Etymology

From Latin dēlīrium

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: de‧li‧ri‧um

Noun

delirium n (plural deliria or deliriums, diminutive deliriumpje n)

1. delirium

Synonyms

• delier

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Latin

Etymology

From dēlīrō (“I deviate from the straight track; I am deranged”), from dē (“from, away from, out of”) + līra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /deːˈliː.ri.um/, [d̪eːˈlʲiːriʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /deˈli.ri.um/, [d̪eˈliːrium]

Noun

dēlīrium n (genitive dēlīriī or dēlīrī); second declension

1. delirium, madness, frenzy
   • c. 47 C.E., Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.7.28

     […] aut qui febre aeque non quiescente simul et delirio et spirandi difficultate vexatur […]

     […] or when, likewise without the fever subsiding, he is distressed at once by delirium and difficulty in breathing […]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dēlīrium	dēlīria
Genitive	dēlīriī dēlīrī1	dēlīriōrum
Dative	dēlīriō	dēlīriīs
Accusative	dēlīrium	dēlīria
Ablative	dēlīriō	dēlīriīs
Vocative	dēlīrium	dēlīria

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (madness): dēlīrātiō, dēlīritās

Related terms

• dēlīrāmentum
• dēlīrātiō
• dēlīritās

• dēlīrō
• dēlīrus

Descendants

• Asturian: deliriu, deleres
• Bulgarian: дели́р (delír)
• Catalan: deler, deliri
• Czech: delirium
• Danish: delirium
• Dutch: delier, delirium
• English: delirium

• Esperanto: deliro
• Estonian: deliirium
• Finnish: delirium
• French: délire, delirium
• German: Delirium
• Hungarian: delírium
• Ido: deliro

• Interlingua: delirio
• Italian: delirio
• Norwegian: delirium, dille
• Polish: delirium
• Portuguese: delírio
• Romanian: delir

• Russian: дели́рий (delírij)
• Serbo-Croatian: делиријум, delirijum
• Slovak: delírium
• Spanish: delirio, delírium
• Swedish: delirium
• Turkish: deliriyum

References

• “delirium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirier, definite plural deliria or deliriene)

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

delirium n (definite singular deliriet, indefinite plural delirium, definite plural deliria)

1. a delirium

References

• “delirium” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Polish

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dēlīrium, from dēlīrō (“I am deranged”), from dē (“from, away from, out of”) + līra (“the earth thrown up between two furrows; a ridge, track, furrow”).

Noun

delirium n

1. delirium

Declension

Declension of delirium

	singular	plural
nominative	delirium	deliria
genitive	delirium	deliriów
dative	delirium	deliriom
accusative	delirium	deliria
instrumental	delirium	deliriami
locative	delirium	deliriach
vocative	delirium	deliria

Further reading

• Template:R:PWN

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Swedish

Noun

delirium n

1. delirium

Declension

Declension of delirium
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	delirium	deliriet	delirier	delirierna
Genitive	deliriums	deliriets	deliriers	deliriernas